Mediaeval Arabic bookmaking
Subtitle: and its relation to early chemistry and pharmacology [by] Martin Levey.
Contributors: Abū al-Abbas ibn Muhammad al-Sufyānī, fl. 1619.; Levey, Martin.
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; new ser., v. 52, pt. 4
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Books -- History -- 400-1400; Chemistry, Technical -- To 1800
Notes: Consists primarily of Staff of the scribes and implements of the discerning with a description of the line, the pens, soot inks, liq, gall inks, dyeing, and details of bookbinding (translation of Umdat al-kuttab wa'uddat dhawi al-albab)
Appendix (p. 51-55): Translation of Abu'l-'Abbas Ahmed ibn Muhammed al Sufyani: Sina'at tasfir al-kutub wa-hil al-dhahab (Art of bookbinding and of gilding) from the Arabic text published by P. Ricard, 1925 [i. e. 1919?]